Daily if Trojan
Volume LXVIII, Number 85
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Thursday, March 4, 1976
AT THE NET—Between cloudbursts on Wednesday this semi-hidden volleyball court outside the Allan Hancock Foundation JiicJ j 'st long enough to entice these students away from the books to play a game. DT photo by Rick Stern.
Kidnapping suspect charged
A misdemeanor kidnapping charge has been brought against one of two suspects who attempted to kidnap three university students late Sunday night, said Sgt. Bill Henery of the Southwest Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Felony kidnapping complaints against the two suspects were rejected by the district attorney because of insufficient evidence. Henery said.
The city attorney has scheduled a hearing on the matter at 3 p.m. March 31, he said.
The victims, members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, were walking home near 30th Street and University Avenue when two men in their early 20s appeared and tried to force them into their car.
One of the three students noticed a Campus Security truck parked nearby the Alpha Delta Pi sorority parking lot and called for help. Within seconds, other Campus Security vehicles appeared, along with the police who arrested the suspects. The suspects and the victims were taken to the security station on campus to be questioned by police.
KSCR gets $4,000 loan for equipment
By Denis Wolcott
Staff Writer
KSCR, the student-operated radio station, received a $4,000 loan on Wednesday from the Student Senate.
The station will also receive a $5,000 grant from the Campus Activities Allocations Board. The grant was awarded to KSCR on Feb. 10 with the stipulation that the station would get it only if the senate approved a loan.
The senate will take the money from the reserve ofthe New Activities and Services Agency, a recently formed arm of the senate. The $4,000 must be paid back in two years.
The grant and the loan will be used to purchase new broadcasting equipment.
Kevin Keeshan, general manager of KSCR. said the station needs the money to buy electronic equipment necessary to make it self-supporting and more professional.
“It was one challenge of getting the money; now it is another challenge to return the loan,” Keeshan said.
He said the primary source of funding will be from advertisements, but added that it would be better to broadcast to the whole campus for a broader audience for advertisements.
The station is presently broadcasting to the Birnkrant and Trojan Dining Halls, the Student Activities Center Music Room and McDonald’s off 28th (continued on page 2)
Student Senate reinstates social work representative
Ron Brooks, graduate representative to the Student Senate from the School of Social WTork, was reinstated by the senate Wednesday.
The move came after he appealed the senate’s recent decision to remove Brooks and three othergraduate students for poor attendance.
David Blackmar, chairman of the senate, noted that the above average attendance at the meeting was probably a result of the recent removal of senators.
Brooks was the only ousted member to make an appeal. Action has already been taken on the status of the other three members who were removed.
Celeste Martin, the representative from the Division of Humanities, will be removed from her position. The Dental School has agreed to select a new representative after
threatening to withdraw from the senate.
The third member, Ted Winter from the Graduate School of Business, was the victim of a mix-up by the senate. His term had expired, but a new representative was notelected until December.
Timothy Luberski, the new representative, said he attended a meeting in December but did not receive notice of subsequent meetings because the notices were being sent to Winter, who the senate thought was still the representative. After Winter’s removal , Luberski contacted the senate to tell it ofthe mix-up.
Brooks said conflicts between his class schedule and the senate meeting times prevented him from attending.
Blackmar said that Brooks had shown an interest in being a
senator. “We do not have an irresponsible individual here. There was just a problem of working out Ron’s schedule with the meeting times,” he said.
Brooks’ schedule has been submitted to the senate in hopes that a suitable meeting time can be worked out.
The senate also approved nominees for the New Activities and Services Agency.
The students approved to serve on the agency’s board are Dwight Lemon, a junior in psychology; Chris Leanders, a junior in business; Neal Lyon, a sophomore in psychology; Paul Montgomery, a freshman in economics; Mark Foster, a sophomore in international relations; Jackson May, a sophomore in political science and Elizabeth Jiminez, a freshman in petroleum engineering.
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Funds planned for gay library released by allocations board
By Peter Fletcher
Staff Writer
The Campus Activities Allocations Board has lifted the freeze it placed on $1,000 originally allocated to the Gay Student Union to purchase literature for a library' about homosexuals.
The funds were allocated to the union in February, then frozen last week by the board.
The funds were released after representatives of the gay students appeared before the board and answered additional questions about the library.
The board had frozen the funds at the request of Mike Peterson, the allocations board chairman, because he said the library wasn’t investigated enough before it was funded.
Peterson said his main concern about the funding was that it set a bad precedent. He said he
feels it isn’t the job of the board to set up libraries. He made the point at the meeting that the university has a large budget to set up libraries.
Sal Licata, a member of the Gay Student Union and a history teacher, said the university won’t buy books that students request.
Licata said most of the publications that the gay students wanted to buy were periodicals, which the university’s library won’t buy because 70% of its budget is already spent on periodicals.
Members of the board asked if it would be possible to use departmental budgets to buy the publications. Licata said that since most of the publications are periodicals, the departmental bookmoniescouldn’t be used even if the departments agreed
to buy the books for the gay students.
Matt St. George, cochairman of the Gay Student Union, told the board that the library would be located in the future office ofthe gay students. The gay students are currently trying to get office space in the Student Union, St. George said.
He said he wants the materials together in one place so they will be easier to locate, so students can seek gay literature without being embarrassed and so the literature could be supervised so it wouldn’t be vandalized.
Licata said that much ofthe material dealing with gays that is in the university’s other libraries has been defaced. Licata said there is a need on this campus to establish a library of homosexual literature because
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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL—Nick Gonzales, a sophomore in broadcasting and a disc-jockey for KSCR, the student-run radio station, spins records for audiences in Birnkrant and Trojan Dining Halls, the
Student Activities Center Music Koom and McDonald's on Figueroa Street. KSCR's $4, OCX) loan from the Student Senate will be used to purchase new studio equipment. DT photo by Sherry Stern.